West Palm commission candidates feud online

Commissioner Shanon Materio has taken to The Palm Beach Post online comment sections to challenge opponent Gregg Weiss in the District 5 race.

Two hours after The Post published a story online Thursday evening with Weiss saying Materio lied about his stances on issues on her campaign website, Materio wrote a comment on the story that said, “Gregg: it appears you have finally been forced to discuss the issues facing the City rather than spending your entire time worrying about what I did not say six months ago.”

Materio told Weiss that she would “remove your previous position from our web site” if Weiss answered eight questions she posed about city issues. She ended her lengthy comment with, “I await your reply.”

Weiss, who met with The Post Editorial Board on Friday, answered all of the questions but said later: “I don’t need to answer Shanon. My message is to the voters of West Palm Beach and to District 5. I speak to them and I answer their questions. I don’t think it’s appropriate to be holding a discussion in the blogs.”

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